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Welcome to Before Before Breakfast. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to exercise your social muscles.

If you have any social skills that are weak, consciously thinking of how to strengthen them can make your social life better over time. Today's tip comes from Friendship Expert Shasta Nelson,

who has been a guest on my other podcast, Best of Both Worlds.

Shasta recently gave a TEDx talk called Relationaly

Fit, the social secret to a longer happier life. In her TED Talk she argues that no pain, no gain, turns out to be true for relational fitness and not just physical fitness.

Just as you have to lift heavier weights and perhaps feel a little sore in order to strengthen

your muscles. She says that sometimes we have to do things that feel a little uncomfortable

in our relationships in order to get stronger.

So think about this.

Where might you be socially flabby?

Shasta suggested a few areas.

Maybe you rarely initiate plans.

Maybe you have a tendency to start talking about yourself

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